Comment Raspberry Pi + External Hard drive + Rsync (Score 1) 285
That's what I did, now I have an off-site 3TB backup system.
Comment Re:So much for... (Score 1) 743
Actually you are not allowed to purchase alcohol nor are you allowed to be served it. However with your parents or guardians you are allowed to drink it in a bar or restaurant. The parents would need to purchase and hand the alcohol to the minor.
Many bars around here will not allow anyone under 21 in their doors for fear of getting caught not following the rules with this one. My local bar allows minors but does not allow them to drink. Even with appropriate paperwork.
But growing up between 18 and 21 I usually had a drink when I went to dinner with my family. Never had a problem at a restaurant.
Comment Re:I quite like mine. (Score 1) 250
Very easy to run Chrombuntu on and then it makes the best laptop I know of for that price.
Second this. For a little over 200 I have a dual core Ubuntu laptop that does everything I need it for.
Comment Re:"essentially useless" (Score 1) 44
Actually a google images search won't show me a single example of a red-yellow-blue traffic light either.
Comment Scotch Tape has been used before. (Score 5, Interesting) 97
Helped discover graphene:
http://science.energy.gov/news/in-focus/2011/03-25-11/
Comment Re:Evening news, 2027 (Score 1) 388
Actually this would be great.
23,000 fatalities in 10 years is a bit better then 32,885 in one year (2010).
Comment Asimov wrote children's books too. (Score 1) 726
Check out Norby.
Comment Works just fine (Score 1) 95
Installed and played a few games without a hitch. I'm sure it's not 100% but it seems pretty playable. I think it's nice being able to play in linux first for a change.
Submission + - Nightmare web design clients
Mathew Browne writes: "I recently wrote an article about web design clients who have proved a little troublesome — see http://www.mbwebdesign.co.uk/blog/nightmare-web-de sign-clients/
You know the kind — "we can't afford to pay you but we'll let you have a link back to your site", "I want to be #1 on Google for [insert generic term here]", "let's use Comic Sans as the font", et cetera. This article lists 10 clients I've encountered who you want to avoid."
MacGyver Physics 165
counterfriction writes "This month's issue of Symmetry, a magazine jointly published by SLAC and Fermilab, is featuring an article that points out the sometimes extemporaneous and unconventional solutions physicists have come up with in (and out of) the laboratory. From the article: 'Leon Lederman ... used a pocket knife, tape, and items on anyone's grocery list to confirm that interactions involving the weak force do now show perfect mirror symmetry, or parity, as scientists had long assumed.'"
